Good Books Are in the Forecast

Our December display theme, Good Books Are in the Forecast, brings together fiction and nonfiction featuring all sorts of weather events.

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Updated November 13, 2024
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Thunder & lightning : weather past, present, future
Redniss, Lauren
Paper Book
From the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive, comes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means. WINNER OF THE...
Miss Julia weathers the storm
Ross, Ann B.
Paper Book
In the latest installment of Ann B. Ross's New York Times bestselling series, Miss Julia takes a trip to the beach, only to confront a hurricane roiling off the coast--and all the trouble it washes ashore Miss Julia's sweet and generous husband, Sam, has decided to take a...
Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world
Vaillant, John
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION * FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION * A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing ...
Rain : a natural and cultural history
Barnett, Cynthia 1966-
Paper Book
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive.   It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain <...
The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras
Hargrove, Brantley
Paper Book
The life and death saga of one of history's greatest storm chasers: a tour-de-force tale of obsession, ingenuity, and the race to understand nature's fiercest phenomenon--the tornado. "An instant classic of Americana." --Hampton Sides "Many a novel is not written...
The Children's Blizzard
Benjamin, Melanie 1962-
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren. ...
The storm we made : a novel
Chan, Vanessa (Novelist)
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE In this "espionage-laden family epic" (Vanity Fair), an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy--and her dark secrets will test even the...
The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future
Moore, Peter 1983-
Paper Book
In 1865 Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm warning system and "forecasts" would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was...
The raging storm
Cleeves, Ann
Paper Book
Ann Cleeves--New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--returns with the extraordinary third in the Two Rivers series. Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions.
The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea
Junger, Sebastian.
Paper Book
The #1 "New York Times" bestseller is now available in paperback with never-before-seen photos--just in time for Father's Day! "Superb. . . . Told with authority, brio and deep sympathy for those in peril on the sea."--"Washington Post Book World." 8-page photo insert.
The bad weather friend
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray) 1945-
Paper Book
Benny is so nice they feel compelled to destroy him, but he has a friend who should scare the hell out of them in this breathtaking new kind of thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz. Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested...

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